Milestones

May 15, 20202 Minuten

—STEPHANIE ZACHAREK

By Penn Jillette

DIED

Little Richard

Rock-’n’-roll progenitor

IN THE 1940S, TEENAGERS WERE JUST ADULTS IN WAITING, busy with responsibilities like going to war. But the luckier teenagers of the 1950s became a kind of royalty, and Little Richard—who died on May 9 at age 87—welcomed them with an embrace of raucous, peacock splendor. In 1955, his